Social isolation and cardiometabolic burden synergistically predict physical dysfunction in aging Chinese adults: Evidence of risk thresholds and the mediating role of frailty

• Shuang Deng,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Tianhua College, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China

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• Zhongqiang Guo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: guozhongqiang0701@gmail.com

  Affiliation School of Nursing and Health, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4556-6692

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• Siyuan He,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation

  Affiliation School of Nursing and Health, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, China

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• Xuetao Sun

  Roles Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation The 908th Hospital of the Joint Logistics Support Force, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

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